Alakit

Alakit
Алакит
Course of the Alakit ONC map section
Alakit is located in Sakha Republic
Alakit
Mouth location in Yakutia, Russia
Alakit is located in Russia
Alakit
Alakit (Russia)
Location
CountryRussia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationAlakit-Kyuel
 • coordinates65°53′21″N 110°53′51″E / 65.88917°N 110.89750°E / 65.88917; 110.89750
 • elevation628 m (2,060 ft)
MouthOlenyok
 • coordinates
67°07′41″N 109°54′16″E / 67.12806°N 109.90444°E / 67.12806; 109.90444 67°07′41″N 109°54′16″E
 • elevation
197 m (646 ft)
Length232 km (144 mi) (344 km (214 mi))
Basin size11,800 km2 (4,600 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionOlenyokLaptev Sea

The Alakit (Russian: Алакит) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of 232 kilometres (144 mi) and a drainage basin area of 11,800 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi).[1]

The river flows across a lonely, desolate area of Mirninsky and Olenyoksky districts. Currently there are no settlements, but a small village named Alakit was located by the river in its upper course, a little upstream of the mouth of the Yuyose-Delingde, a left tributary.[2][3]

The Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field is located between the upper Alakit in the west and the Daldyn River by Udachnaya in the east.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Река Алакит in the State Water Register of Russia". textual.ru (in Russian).
  2. ^ Google Earth
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference STM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Alakit and Daldyn kimberlite fields, Siberia, Russia: Two types of mantle sub-terranes beneath central Yakutia?
  5. ^ Kargin, A. V.; Golubeva, Yu. Yu.; Kononova, V. A. (2011). "Kimberlites of the Daldyn-Alakit region (Yakutia): Spatial distribution of the rocks with different chemical characteristics". Petrology. 19 (5): 496–520. Bibcode:2011Petro..19..496K. doi:10.1134/S086959111105002X.